We've been keenly charting the meteoric rise of the fashion world's pre-eminent gender-bending model, Andrej Pejic, since he started sneaking womenswear jobs out from under the noses of countless boring old female models.

Wearing top-to-toe Jean Paul Gaultier - for whom Pejic has variously performed muse,
couture bride
and campaign star duties over the past few years - the
Elle
in question is that of his birth nation, Serbia (Pejic fled to Australia as a political refugee when he was eight following the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia). By all accounts, Gaultier even personally sent the clothes to the shoot after hearing about the groundbreaking January cover. And doesn't he/she look marvelous?